The Sinclair QL Forum

Well, after a very trying day with this package, finally done. If you downloaded the manual before the time of this message, please download it again as the missing pages should be there now. For some reason I just couldn't download the TIF file from the dropbox, only the JPEG. But the JPEG only sho...

Thanks Derek.

Thanks Derek - ProPascal added "as-is" from The Distribution to the Programming Languages page on my site

http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/language/index.html

I have scanned the manual - it is attached as a jpg - although I have sent a link to the tif version to Dilwyn also (too big to upload here), so someone else can OCR it easily OK - the jpg is only page 1 of the scan - the tif is page 1 and 2... OCRed this from the JPEG and put it up as just these p...

John Jones-Steele, who ran Abersoft in the 1980s, has given permission for the Classic Adventures package to be released as freeware. The package includes two text adventure games, "The Adventure" and "Mordon's Quest". The first is based on the famous adventure game by Crowther a...

I have The Distributin 3.02 and it has ProPascal in the xcl folder, but two problems strike me: 1) it seems to be merged with pro-fortran and I don't know how to separate them 2) seems to need Q-emuLator and I just H-A-T-E trying to unqemulate software, it takes so long that I just usually refuse to...

Hmm the Prospero Pro-Pascal package is missing from the Sinclair QL Homepage - although Dilwyn added the Pro-Fortran package I don't have a copy of Pro-pascal and I can't seem to find it in my copy of the Preservation Project. If anyone can send me a copy (or let me know where to get one) and if we...

A couple of ideas for you to experiment with, dden. I emphasise these are only ideas and I've not tried these and no guarantee whatsoever if any would just be a complete waste of your time: 1. Create a job which has only a SCR channel open, loads an image into that SCR window then sets its own prior...

I regret to have to report that I heard this morning of the death of Stuart Honeyball of Miracle Systems. He passed away peacefully last night (28th March) at 23:45 of cancer, according to his wife, Karin. I’m sure you’ll all want to join me in extending our condolence to his wife and family and exp...

Sector X, a fun shoot 'em up game from Horst Spierling, is now available to download as freeware.

Needs 256K RAM and Minerva.

Download it from the Games page on my site:

http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/index.html or http://www.greybeardz.com/games/index.html